Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1898.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7356, 2 November 1898, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1898.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cable message from their London office, under date October 28th : —Sheepskins.—Since our last telegram prices in general are lower by Jd to Jd per lb. Butter.—The market is quiet;, and prices are lower by 2s par cwt. It is stated that the well-known Lagmohr Estate, comprising some of the beat agricultural district, will shortly be cut up and offered for sale in suitable sized farms.

English papers to hand by the las'; mail indicate that this colony's experiment in connection with old age pensions is attracting keen interest at Kome. The London Daily Chronicle, referring to the passing of the Bill by the Lower House, remarked : " Many old age pension schemes have been suggested, and we have had a wonderful Commission, which after considering all recommended none. New Zealand, which is setting us many examples of useful social legislation, has done better." The article concludes "We shall watch its operation with interest, and our politicians may profit by New Zealand's example." A private letter has been received from Captain Andrew, who will be remembered as an old Christchurch Volunteer, who won a commission in the Imperial Army. Captain Andrew is (says the Lyttelton Times) at present stationed at Kasauli, near Simla (India), and has recently been offered the appointment of staff-captain on the Intelligence Branch, Burmah, which is a position of responsibility, and is greatly coveted by Indian army officers. We again remind our readers of the annual tea and public meeting in connection with Emmanuel Church, which will take place to-morrow evening The committee who have had the arrangements in hand havo spared no pains to make the gathering a success, and a large attendance is confidently expected. A capital programme has been provided by Miss Tempero and Mr Penfold, in the course of which several of the young people ot the church will appear as entertainers for the first time. An advertisement containing full particulars appears elsewhere.

Mails for Australian colonies only, via f»ydney, psr Pukaki, close at Westport, on Saturday sth at 7 p m. ' Mails for & uatralian colonies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via Hobart) close at Invercaigill, per Waikare, on Saturday,! sbhj inst, at Ipm. The London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times supplies the following:—Mr Justice Williams attended the Congress of Labor at Antwerp, not as " official delegate from New Zealand," as some of the papers described him, but as a private individual interested in the subjects discussed. He took no part in the debates, but) in reply to a question by the Chairman, as to the law in New Zealand on the subject of the employment of children in factories, and as to the education of children so employed, informed the meeting that by the colony's Factory Act, children under fourteen years of age are not allowed to be employed at all, and that children under sixteen are noo allowed to work in factories unless they had passed the Fourth Standard. The New Zealander would have been glad to enter into debates on various points raised during the Congress, but; felt unequal to conducting an argument in French. Speeches in English would have had to be translated, and he felt that it was impossible to translate arguments satisfactorily, and therefore became a mere listener. The feeling of the majority of the Congress was, he found, distinctly against legislative interference between employer and employed, but the minority's views were not so well set forth aB they would have been if the Congress had been differently constituted, and labor more largely represented. Judge Williams does not think that any practical good will result from the Antwerp Congress. TheJ only real good, indeed, of gatherings of the kind.is that they being people of different together, enable them to exchange ideas and encourage international friendliness. Moreover, they bring money into a country, and for that reason the Belgians encourage ■ them. Tho average of congresses held in Belgium is about thirty per annum, and it will be Been fchab If-the visitor# only spend a ten pound

note apiece, the country profits verv on« Biderably. The Belgians, Mr Willi ama tel ," me, are most anxious that the Czar's l)il armanent Congress should take plaoß in their country, pure y for financial reasons. Messrs Geo. Bruce and John Siuclair mnfi with good sport at the Waitaki last, week Mr Geo. Bruce got a record catch of li trout averaging 41b apieoe, while Mr J o hn Sinclair captured six nice fish. The fish ara getting in fine condition, but the weather i> still against successful angling. Tl lo nui River is still running very high and angling at this river is almoßt at a stand, still.

The bazaar at Kurow in aid of the school funds will be opened at 1 o'clock to morm® by Mr R. O. Campbell, of Otekaike.

The following will play in the cricW match Club v. Waitaki High School p aah ' and Present to-morrow afternoon. Club Hewat, M'Donald, Ross, Tennent, Onglev* Roxby, Dawson, Earl, M'Kellar, Sumptc'V Moir, Meek, Godwin, M'Kinlay, Vercv' Murray. School—Holmes (2), Jones (3) Giflord, Waddell, Ferens, Spenoe, Booth Maude, Grumitt, Roberts, Thomson (2)' Thompson, Sutherland. 1

The Timaru Herald says We learn that) Mr T. Lynch, who has been officer in charge of the wharves for the Railway Department for the last five months, reoeived word yes. terday of his promotion to Palmerston North. Mr Lynch, though the work he had to do here was somewhat new to him has earned the good wishes of tho shipped and others connected with tho port. Wo are sure that his many friends hero will bo pleased to hear of his continued sucoess in the northern town.

At the Magistrate's Court this morning before Mr George Brownlee, J.P., George Sullivan was charged that on or about May 4th, at Christchurch, he did steal a bicycle valued at Lls, the property of John Flotcher Beßt. The police applied for a remand till to-morrow, which was granted. The accused is the person who was alleged to have been the victim of an outrage at Pukouri. He left the Hospital early yesterday morning, rather nonplussing the police, who had intended to arrest him immediately on his leaving the institution. He returned at night to his late lodgings to secure his bo. longings when he was arrested by the police, who were watching the place. The Lyttelton Times says Although it is a matter for general complaint that good fat cattle are very scarce in Canterbury, and that to a great extent butchers have to dopend on consignments from the North Island, it appears that prime beasts can be found here for the Dunedin market. The express train yesterday had a couple of trucks of very line beasts consigned to the Burnsido market.

The Studholme correspondent of tho Timaru Herald writes: The present ap. pearance of crops in this 'ocality gives promise of an abundant harvest. For tho farmer this has been the best season for many years ; in the past the usual thing has been a drought or a flood.—The breaking up of the Waikakahi estate is causing a little excitement in thiß district. Some of tho village settlers who have at present a small holding of 10 acres, could well do with a few more acres, but in consequence of possessing a holding will be debarred from going in for a part of Waikakahi.—A money order and Post Office Savings Bank has been established in connection with the Post Gflice here, and has already proved a vory groat convenience. Several improvements are to be made also in connection with the building which will in a way separate the pnat dolivery from the department in which tho railway business is transacted, and no doubt this will be a convenience to tho staff.— I The flix-mill in the neighborhood is working away very steadily. A good deal of fibre has been put through since beginning, and the appearance of the surroundings shows that the promoters have not been idle,—On dib, a tennis club is to be formed. No doubt we will shortly hear more about It.—To meet requirements for sale days, Mr Mann, of the Junction Hotel, is having the present dining room of the hotel very much enlarged.

Litigation has taken place at Rotorua over the celebrated stone " atua" or deified imago known as Matua-a-Tonga, whioh is very ancient and is carefully preserved by tho Maoris on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua, VVi Kepa, the custodian of the " atua " iot the Ngatimenukudopako tribe, on his death last year bequeathed the image to Merenin Rapaira, a female relative, who claimed it as her sole property. The other natives of Mokoia brought a case before the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court at Rotorua, and Lieuten-ant-Colonel Roberts has given judgment in their favor, it being understood that tho affairs of " Matua-a-Xonga" will be in future administered by a committee, and that tho revenua derived from exhibiting tho stone to tourists shall be divided amongst tho roeidents of Mokoia Is'and.

A young man at Masterton, named Frank Fisher, committed suicide to-day by shoo ing himself through the head. Color prejudice must be pretty strong at the Cape. According to Mr Balmforth, who writes in the Westminster Review, Princo Ranjitsinhji, if he went to South Africa, would not be allowed, by the rules of the Cape Cricket Clubs, to play in a first-class match !

Zola is said to be engaged in writing another novel with a purpose. The " purpose" is nothing less than an attempt to show his countrymen that small families arc incompatible with national greatness. It will be rather a delicate subject to touch upon ; but the man who was brave enough to attack the French army is not likely to care much for public opinion.

The condition of Russia, both economic and political, is attracting a good deal of attention at Home just now, and writers who have any information at their command about the country and the inhabitants thereof are not slow in giving it publicity. An example is Mr Arnold White, who, in the last number of the National Review, thus pictures Russia, from an economic point of view:—" The denudation of the Volga Valley and, in fact, throughout the whole of the centre and south, has had for its effect the diminution of the rainfall and the impoverishment of the soil. Scarcity is almost continuous, even in the black soil districts ; famine is always on the horizon, and every few years the spectre of want enters the doorway of millions of Russian homes. Much of the soil in European Russia, vast as it is, is rapidly becoming exhausted." This description, viewed in the light of the latest Rassian cable news, appears to be a very correct one. Turning now to Russian politics, Mr White thus sums up the wholo matter : - " The future of Russia, so long as she keeps the peace and limits her disputes with other nations to the field of diplomacy, may possibly be prosperous and bright; but if her unwieldly empire should be plunged into the hazard of war, tho ignorance and superstition of her people, the corruption and inebriety of her administrators, the absence of a master-mind in the Czar, or of an educative middle class, tho alienation of the Jews, and her shipshod unreadiness for vast combinations at a distance, are moro likely to result in a humiliating and perhaps ridiculous collapse than in tho establishment of universal dominion over tho civilised world." It will thus be seen that according to Mr White, Russia's best policy is peace, not war, and the information we havo recently published concerning the country points in the same direction. Tho most widely separate points between which a telegram ean be sent are British Columbia and New Zealand. A telegram Bent from one to tho other would make nearly a circuit of the globe, and would traverse over 20,000 miles in doing so. President M'Kinley was presented with a bale of raw cotton worth LlO, whioh ho sold by auction for L2OO, the proceeds going to the funds of the Red Cross Society in Cuba. Since then it has been resold in every important town in the States, and, thanks to i the patriotism of the Americans, it has earned for the Society ita weight in gold. Do you think we could sell Hoyle's famouß Prints at 4f d yard if Hoyles paid bo much for the raw cotton ?—Prnrosb's Drapery Establishment, Thames street. With the incoming summer season and fine weather the need of outdoor reoreation will naturally be felt. Attention iB, therefore, oalled to tho Bale advertisement of Bicycles in the Federal Bicyole and Engineering Worka Warehouse. Cycles for everybody at prices to suit everybody. Call early, as the' machines will sell rapidly and cannot be replaced at the money. See advertisement.—ADvr. Keep your eyo on Clayton, Gardiner and Oo.»a advertisement over tho leader) it changes often.

In the race of commerce the trialaof speed between the old fashioned, slow going ioiig credit badness with its big profits, and large expense and its opponent the Beady-Money Shop, with its rapid torn-over of stock at small profits, is well Bummed up in the familiar proverb—The nimble shilling before the slow pound. It is admitted on all hands that our prices are the lowest and our values the best. See ourj Men's Colonial Tweed Suite 22a lid, unequalled anywhere else under 28s 6d or 303; a nice line in Men's Colonial Tweed Trousers 8s 9d, 8s lid Men's Heavy Mole Trousers 5a lid, Men'; Flannelette Shirts Is 7d, Is lid, 2s 6d ;s Men's Leather Sbirts 2s6d, 2a lid, 3s 6d, 4s 6<L Boys' Sailor Suite from 4s 6d Men's lixtra Heavy Bibbed Cotton Drawers is lid, a special line. Men's Merino Drawers 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3a 6d ; Men's Merino Singlets 2s 3d, 2s 6d, 28 lid; Heavy Knitted Wool Drawers 3s 3d, 3s 9d, 4s 6d ; Men's Tweed Caps Is, is 6d; Boys' Tweed Cap 3 3£d, 6d, Is ; Straw Hata from Is; Soft Felt Hats, drab or black, 2s ; Scarfs and Ties 6d, Is, Is 3d ; Merino Socks 6d 9d, Is ; Heavy Wool bocks Is, Is 6d, Is 93. Brass Felte, etc ,in great variety. Consult true economy and shop at the Polytechnic Beady-Money Shop, Thames street. i

Gbbat clearing sale of boots and shoes at the New Zealand Boot Supply Co.'s Branch, Thames street. We have decided upon the above as our great movement for the end of July and the month August With us to will is to do. We save no means untried to prove the quali of our goods. This great clearing sale will demonstrate to your satisfaction the claims we make on your custom. Gentlemen's Boots, the well-known K.G. Brand, were 22a, now 16s 6d. Ladies' evening shoes in great variety at) fclie lowest quotations ever seen Ladies' lace and strap shoes 10 per cent over cost price. Dozens of odd pairs of evening shoes at bargain prices. Children's boots, shoes, and slippers at astonishing prices. Gents' canvas shoes were 6s 6d, now 4a 9cL Great variety of evening shoes t 2s lid; Men's and Women's strong colonial-made boots and shoes at wholesale prices. See tickets in the windows and at he door. School Boots —A sing'e pair a the wholesale price. Women's slippers from s per pair; Children's slippers from 9d. ] We expect our Spring and Summer Goods within a month, and must reduce stock. Remember this great clearing sale will last for one month only. Come as many of the lines are limited ii quantity. Re member the address—New Zealand Boot Supply Co., opposite Post Office. Colin Sievwright, Manager. Tbmpus Fugit, and how rapid ifc3 Light Scarcely have the last echoes of the past season died away, and the new season dawns upon us with its new hopes, its new demands, its new responsibilities. Tempus Fugit, and again Time proves the result of a year's conscientious labor! Again it is our privilege to bring our announcement of a vast selection of novelties before yon. Tempus Fugit, and yet again we are able to make the time-honored claim, a3 wellounded a3 of yore, that the new collection in all its divisions and sub-divisions is once more in advance of all its predecessors that it has kept pace with flying time, that Immense Variety, Wide Range, and Absoute Novelty, coupled with rare beauty and high finiflh, are more than ever the distinguishing characteristics of our Spring Show. We will make good the claim, immense Variety and Wide Range are certainly embodied in our collection. New washing materials, new stuff materials, new millinery, new ribbons and laces, new straw hats, new everything —John Bulleid and Co. Universal Providers.

Bbicks. —It's brick by brick that builds a house, it's saving penny by penny that builds a fortune; and it's buying your Boots and Shoes from M'Donald and M'Disjrmid that enables you to create a savings fund of your own. For splendid variety see our windows. No value liKe ours anywhere.—M-'Donald and M'Ciak mid, Macallan House.—Advt.

Sfbikg Furnishings.—We have opeedn ex Duke of Devonshire, Gothic and Elingamite, a fine supply of Home Furnishings, Sheetings, Door Mats, Counterpanes, Toilet Covers, Towels, Cretonnes, Table Covers

Sateen Cretonnes, Lancaster Blindiogs, Cur

tains, etc., etc. See our Millinery. See our Dress Materials. See our Hosiery and

Gloves. See our Men's Mercery.—Clay ton Gardtner, akd Co., Standard House.Advt.